With Selma James
Journal of Aesthetics & Protest issue launch.
Housmans welcomes guests from the US-based journal to launch their latest issue, which considers the intersections of art and radical politics.
PRE-ELECTION BOOK TALK with Zoe Williams.
Ahead of the general election the Guardian’s Zoe Williams discusses the failure of modern British politics and what it would take to move the broken system forward.
Workshop.
A chance for new singers and instrumentalists to be coached in performing two pieces, participate in a one day workshop and perform in front of a live audience backed by the Free Peace Band.
Just Supper at 7.30pm. At 8.15 there will be a presentation by Craig Walker. Based on research from a PhD focusing on how two post civil war countries (Nepal and Mozambique) have dealt with the legacy of war-time violence and the experience of trying to transform social relations away from violence being considered as a legitimate form of managing conflict.
As the guns of World War I rang out across Europe, over 1200 women gathered in the Netherlands in April 1915 to coordinate their efforts to bring an end to the conflict.
CO Day Ceremony at the CO Stone in Tavistock Square.
Remembering women:
Sheila Triggs WILPF
Mia Tamarin, an Israeli conscientious objector
Remembering Conscientious Objectors world wide
We will remember the victims of all massacres in Syria, not least the 45+ people – a number of them women and children - brutally killed during the assault by the Islamic State on the village of al- Mab’ojah, near the city of Salamieh, Hama province, on 31st March, 2015.[1] We will also remember all the civilians and combatants on all sides killed, injured, displaced, kidnapped and tortured during
The speaker will be Dr Ian Kearns, Director of the European Leadership Network. The meeting will be held on Thursday 16 April, 17.30-19.00 in the Garwood Lecture Theatre, South Wing, University College London WC1E 6BT.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Sanjay Rawal and producer Eric Schlosser.
In what was only meant to be a three month trip, Emma Sky travelled to Iraq in 2003 having volunteered to help rebuild the country immediately after the invasion and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. She soon found herself as a political advisor to the US military and three months turned into a decade.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with directors Søren Steen Jespersen and Nasib Farah.
Young Muslims are travelling from Europe to fight in countries such as Syria and Somalia, lured by groups like Al-Shabaab and the Islamic State (IS). Warriors From the North follows a cohort of young Al-Shabaab sympathisers in Denmark and Sweden.
For over two decades, Christina Lamb has reported from Afghanistan, with unparalleled access to all key decision makers. She has developed an extensive understanding of the country, its people and the ongoing conflict.
There are 12 billion bullets produced every year – almost two bullets for every person on the planet. Guns kill as many as 500,000 people every year. Tearing lives apart, they impact not only the dead, the wounded, the suicidal and the mourning, but have far-reaching effects on society and communities.
Red lines have been set and crossed, inquiries have been conducted and talks have been attempted, and yet the conflict in Syria continues to devastate the lives of its population. In what can only be described as one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history, more than 200,000 have died and 12.2 million are now in desperate need of aid.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Joey Boink.
Days after the September 11 attacks, a CIA Predator in Afghanistan executed the world’s first lethal drone strike. The CIA claims that its armed drones are ‘the most precise weapon ever invented’, but what is the true cost? In a new book, Sudden Justice, investigative journalist Chris Woods explores the secretive history of the United States’ use of armed drones.
At its heart, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is an assault on democracy. So, on the international day of action on 18 April we are responding to this corporate power grab through enacting democracy ourselves.
There will be a series of actions throughout the UK and the rest of the world. See http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/events/ttip-day-action for details and map.
